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a couple nights ago i was perusing through the touch records catalogue and queing several of there releases on soulseek to sample them. really stood out to me a lengthy, four track ambient peice. it starts out with a single tone, then builds upon it. a lot of bass in this work. when it blends into the second track it brings in some more ambience a light guitar array and some very light sporatic drums. the third track plays much like the second but more melodic and dense. bassy, frequency cutting tones then blending into much more prominent drums and piano (possibly some guitar ontop as well) it ends with a very length 20 minutes fourth track. blending the bass tones heard from before and a repeating single piano note, then in comes a very slow and light melody from more tones overtop the piano. it's a very nice release and i like it very much. this will be in my next order. |
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i love Ambarchi in general... i found this album a bit uneven, insofar as i think the second track is brilliant, and the others vary from good to so-so... it was interesting to hear him branching out a bit and incorporating other instrumentation other than his trademark dulled bassy guitar tones, some of the brushwork is especially nice (i've always been a sucker for brushes), but then, on the other hand, i think he simplified his approach a bit... so it's maybe not as satisfying as some of his other stuff... at any rate it's definitely a great entry point into his work and i think a lot of people on this board would totally dig it (and its entirely possible that i'm underrating it somewhat, my opinion changes a bit, every time i throw it on)... plus: lush lush cover artwork from Jan Wozencroft (as always) it's been a pretty quiet year for Ambarchi so far, in fact, i'm pretty sure he hasn't put out anything... but i'm definitely lookin' forward to this one: Erstwhile046-2 (double CD): four gentlemen of the guitar (Keith Rowe/Oren Ambarchi/Christian Fennesz/Toshimaru Nakamura)-"cloud" it looks like it'll be out in a month or so... i hear it's gonna be sweet-ass sweet... |
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what would you say his best release is? |
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it's a tough call... really depends what you're lookin' for... i can think of several albums that are really really solid in some way or another... as far as solo stuff goes: is a really beautiful, sombre album that's perfect for sleeping and/or rainy days and then Triste is another cool solo disc that starts out sounding like Eno, and ends up goin' a bit nuts by the end... as far as collaborative stuff goes (and he's done a lot of good ones): has always been a favourite of mine... it's really really awesome noise that is very taut and contained... it's like observing explosions occuring inside some sort of thick membrane or something... really really unique stuff and then both his albums with Martin Ng are pretty cool, very lush, minimal affairs with what sounds like a lot of cymbal feedback type stuff (possibly?), maybe not as interesting but far from unpleasant to get lost in... if yr at all interested you know i'm on slsk, and i have most of his stuff, either shared, or stowed away on data discs (so it's no trouble to put them back up)... |
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awesome thanks man :) i've got suspension qued up and now i may be heading to bed i'll give it a listen in the morning. by the description i think i may like it quite a bit |
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